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Wroughton, and Salthrop, and Broad Hinton, where it is recorded that • 

 in 1854, in a year of high prices, he made a profit of £4000, and the 

 Broad Hinton herd became famous, as he took £'5000 worth of prizes. 

 In 1861 he bought Bupton Farm, in Clyffe Pypard, for £16,000. He 

 died, aged 62, at Winchester. 



The fortunes of the other sons of James and Charlotte — John, James, 

 Alfred (of Eushall), Frederick (of Gore Farm), and Joseph (of Manningford, 

 well known for his support of the Bible Society) — are followed down to 

 recent years. 



This little book does not pretend to any genealogical fulness ; it is 

 simply a pleasant gossippy account of three or four generations of notable 

 Wiltshiremen, intended chiefly for family reading. It has, however, a 

 good deal in it that is of general interest as to the course of prices and 

 farming in the county during the last hundred years. 



Bath and Bristol and Forty Miles Round. By M. J. b. 



Baddeley. London. Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Square, W. 1902. Pp. 

 xvi., 267, with nineteen maps and plans. Price 5*. net. 



This guide book, one of the " Thorough Guide " series, contains a 

 great deal of information in a small compass — has a number of excellent 

 folding maps — is printed in the clearest type — and is of a most convenient 

 size to carry in the pocket when cycling or walking. It has, moreover, 

 rounded corners, which are a great blessing in a book to be carried 

 thus. The information as to roads, distances, inns, railways, in some cases 

 footpaths, and generally as to the best means of travelling and seeing the 

 country with which it deals, appears to be just what a cyclist requires, 

 and a large number of persons who are satisfied to go through a district 

 on wheels or on foot and see a few of the most famous sights in the way 

 of architecture and landscape, and antiquity, without wanting to know 

 too much about them, and are satisfied to take the ordinary run of 

 Churches, camps, &c., more or less " as seen," will probably find every- 

 thing that they need within its neat red covers. 



A considerable portion of the County of Wilts is included within the 

 scope of the guide : — Chippenham, Calne, Corsham, Melksham, Trow- 

 bridge, Devizes, Bradford, Marlborough and Savernake, Westbury, 

 Warminster, Tisbury, Wardour, Stourhead, &c., whilst a point is stretched 

 to include also Stonehenge and Salisbury. This latter place is perhaps 

 more fully dealt with than any other in the county. The Cathedral is 

 fairly described, and there is a good plan of the building and another of 

 the town. The strength of the author, however, does not lie in the 

 description of either antiquities or architecture — with the exception 

 of the Cathedral and Saxon Church at Bradford, both of which may be 

 said to be adequately dealt with, there is hardly a Church in the county 

 that has more than two or three lines given to it, and the architectural 

 notes are too vague, as a rule, 'to be of much use. The trouble of a 

 reference to the pages of this Magazine might in a very large number of 

 cases have provided the half-dozen lines of definite information for which 

 a considerable number oi readers would have been more thankful than for 



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